Yahoo Music supports SanDisk TrustedFlash : SanDisk announced that Yahoo! Music Engine will be available with music cards that feature SanDisk TrustedFlash. Users will be able to directly subscribe to the Yahoo! Unlimited music service to listen to music and preview/unlock an artist’s back catalog. The Yahoo Engine will let Gruvi card users music cards for mobile phones and other portable devices play their music on Windows XP/2000 PCs. SanDisk and Yahoo have also agreed to bundle the Yahoo! Music Engine software client with the TrustedFlash plug-in directly into upcoming TrustedFlash-based music cards. With this plug-in, the software needed to play back music on SanDisk’s TrustedFlash Music Cards will be located on the card itself.

SanDisk Cruzer U3 smart flash drive : SanDisk today introduced its first USB smart drive using U3 technology, a powerful new platform that enables users to store and manage their "personal workspace", including files, programs, passwords and settings, on a tiny device the size of a pack of gum. The announcement was made at DEMOfall where SanDisk's first U3 production units were demonstrated. The event at the Hyatt Huntington Beach is showcasing 70 of the world's most promising new technologies. Private computing means that after a user disconnects the U3 Cruzer from a computer, no personal data is left behind. For example, with a U3 smart Internet browser, cookies are stored on the Cruzer Micro smart drive instead of on the computer.

SanDisk microSD bundled with motorola ROKR mobile : SanDisk Corporation today announced that its 512-megabyte microSDcard is bundled with the new MotorolaROKR phone with iTunesthat was introduced today. The new iTunes-enabled Motorola phone can store approximately 120 songs the equivalent of eight CDs worth of music using the included SanDisk flash storage card. "The ROKR mobile phone is an excellent example of the transformation of the mobile phone into an entertainment device," said Nelson Chan, executive vice president and general manager of the consumer and handset business at SanDisk. "Music is an ideal application for handsets that is enabled by the dramatic increases in capacity in very small memory cards such as microSD."

Sansa car transmitter : SanDisk Corporation today introduced the Sansa Car Transmitter, a device that will play music stored on a SanDisk Sansa MP3 digital player through a car radio. The stereo transmitter plugs into a standard vehicle cigarette lighter and pipes music from the portable player through an unused FM frequency on the radio. The transmitter covers the full FM band, from 88.1 to 107.9 megahertz (MHz), so a user can select any weak frequency. This allows motorists to take a large library of music as many as 48 hours of MP3 music and 96 hours of WMA music when using a Sansa 1 gigabyte MP3 player combined with an optional SanDisk 2 gigabyte SD flash memory card. And that for the little price of $59,99.

Fortune Magazine ranks SanDisk in top 10 : SanDisk Corporation, the world's largest supplier of flash storage card products, announced it has been named to Fortune Magazine's annual list of America's Fastest Growing Companies, ranking 8 out of the 100 companies listed. The list can be found in the September 5, 2005 issue of Fortune Magazine. SanDisk posted record revenues for 2004, with total revenue at $1.8 billion, up 65% from $1.1 billion in 2003. Net income was $267 million, up 58% from net income of $169 million in 2003 and fully diluted earnings per share for fiscal 2004 were $1.44, compared to $1.02 in 2003. The goal of SanDisk is to establish SanDisk as a global consumer-branded powerhouse in the coming decade."

SanDisk Cruzer Freedom USB flash drive : SanDisk introduced Cruzer Freedom USB Flash drive, a uniquely-designed device that lets students carry secure and legal Internet downloads of textbooks, novels, study aids, learning tools and other copyrighted content. Powered by a proprietary SanDisk technology called FlashCP (Flash Content Processor), this latest addition to the Cruzer family of flash drives is a "digital backpack" that can store educational materials as well as any personal content such as MP3 files, digital pictures or computer data files. Addressing a market of more than 65 million American students, SanDisk Cruzer Freedom will be available initially at U.S. Staples stores, starting in September.

SanDisk Extreme 3 European memory card of the year : SanDisk Corporation today announced that the European Imaging & Sound Association (EISA), has named the SanDisk Extreme3 line of high-speed storage cards as the European Memory Card of the Year 2005-2006. The SanDisk Extreme 3 cards recently also won a TIPA award, making this the second prestigious European award earned for the Extreme 3 memory cards' speed and performance. EISA is the largest editorial multimedia organization in Europe, with a membership of fifty audio, video and photo magazines from 20 European countries. The internationally renowned awards are presented annually in recognition of new products that combine the most advanced technology, performance and value.

SanDisk Memory Stick PRO Duo gaming cards shipped : SanDisk Corporation announced that retailers in Europe will begin receiving high-capacity SanDisk Memory Stick PRO Duo Gaming cards over the coming weeks in anticipation of the planned September 1 release of the Sony PSP. The announcement was made at GC 2005, the largest gaming show in Europe. SanDisk Memory Stick PRO Duo Gaming cards, which have become popular in countries where the hand-held entertainment system has already been introduced, are made in capacities of up to 2GB. High-capacity memory cards are necessary to fully utilize the PSP's multitude of features, including the storage of video clips, digital music tracks, game data and digital still photos.